The National Audit Office (NAO) last year saved taxpayers nearly three-quarters of a billion pounds, according to figures realised today in its annual report

PKF Francis Clark and Taylor Mowbray have announced a joint venture which they claim will offer clients a wider range of services

The government has announced new measures to allow smaller companies, co-operatives and social enterprises to bid for public sector contracts in the wake of the Carillion scandal

Only a third of the self-employed UK workforce are paying into a pension despite the majority being deeply concerned about their ability to cope financially after retirement

Nathan Long, senior pension analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, considers the pros and cons of defined benefit transfers for pension holders

Smith Cooper, the Midlands-based accountants, today announced a 15% increase in turnover during the 2017-2018 financial year, marking their most successful year on record

UK retail giant House of Fraser has gained approval from its creditors to enter into a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) which will see the closure of 31 of its 59 department stores and the potential loss of 6,000 jobs

A lack of retirement planning is forcing many UK small and medium enterprise (SME) directors to work into their 70s, potentially damaging their company’s value to prospective buyers, according to research from Moore Stephens

A shortage of Nominated Advisers (Nomads) is causing an exodus of companies from the Alternative Investment Market (AIM), with 151 companies leaving AIM in the last year, according to UHY Hacker Young

The Chancellor has announced the setting up of a new Green Finance Institute and an industry-led financial services skills taskforce as part of moves to ensure the UK remains a leading finance services sector post-Brexit

Investors are calling on companies to reassess how they report their performance metrics, providing clarity about how the measures link with their business strategy, according to a new report from the Financial Reporting Council’s (FRC) Financial Reporting Lab

MPs have taken the Treasury to task over its failure to assess the value for money from the private finance initiative (PFI) and says the department should do more to identify or address the impact of individual PFI projects on local budgets and clarify whether it will use this model in future